Sarah Smith is a coach, speaker and educator known for her work raising awareness of invisible cognitive differences like multisensory aphantasia.

She is the founder of The Aphantasia Academy and creator of the Aphantasia Therapist training programme, the first CPD-certified course in the UK designed specifically for practitioners working with clients who experience multisensory aphantasia, SDAM, anauralia, anendophasia, and alexithymia. She combines academic rigour, and lived experience, with a deep commitment to real-world impact.

What sets Sarah’s work apart is her dual lens. She not only teaches about these differences, she lives with them. Her own experience of navigating therapy without mental imagery, internal dialogue or emotionally rich memory gives her a uniquely compassionate perspective on what many clients are quietly struggling with behind the scenes. Her mission is to help therapists recognise when the models they rely on might be misaligned with how a client’s mind actually works, and to offer practical, respectful ways to adapt.

Through writing, training, and speaking, Sarah is helping to shift the conversation in coaching, counselling and psychotherapy from one that assumes sameness to one that embraces difference.